TARIFF REFORM.
The backbone of the Liberal Party in England is the great middle class, and the great middle class is composed of men whose earnings are comparatively secure and of people who draw modest incomes from investments that would not be affected directly by a broadening of the basis of taxation. This class, says the "Lyttelton Times," as a consuming and not a producing class, is naturally hostile to any'movement that would increase prices. Moveover, the land-owners, the people interested in financial operations, and the tradesmen who import largely are, in general, Freetraders, so that the tariff reformers have to travel a long road before they can convert the whole population of the Mother Country to their way of thinking.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3145, 24 March 1909, Page 4
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121TARIFF REFORM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3145, 24 March 1909, Page 4
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